I Stole This From My Sister’s Blog…

Thanks, Margaret.

Bold for read books, underline for books read in school, and italics for started but didn’t finish (Margaret’s note: “I assume that “books read in school” means books read FOR school and not simply for pleasure while I was of school age.”). I think it’s an odd assortment of books and wonder where the list came from, but that’s the nature of these internet memes. Also, I can’t figure out how to underline on this blog, so I’ve stuck an asterisk on the titles I had to read for class work. Lest you think by the dearth of asterisks that I didn’t have to read in school, it appears to me that this list post-dates my schooldays – for example, it doesn’t contain one title which made me most want to put my head through a wall – “Silas Marner.”

Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellAnna KareninaCrime and PunishmentCatch-22One Hundred Years of SolitudeWuthering HeightsThe SilmarillionLife of Pi : a novelThe Name of the RoseDon QuixoteMoby DickUlyssesMadame BovaryThe OdysseyPride and Prejudice*Jane EyreA Tale of Two CitiesThe Brothers KaramazovGuns, Germs, and SteelWar and PeaceVanity FairThe Time Traveler’s WifeThe IliadEmmaThe Blind AssassinThe Kite RunnerMrs. DallowayGreat ExpectationsAmerican GodsA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusAtlas ShruggedReading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in booksMemoirs of a GeishaMiddlesexQuicksilverWicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the WestThe Canterbury Tales The Historian : a novelA Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManLove in the Time of CholeraBrave New WorldThe FountainheadFoucault’s PendulmMiddlemarchFrankensteinThe Count of Monte CristoDraculaA Clockwork OrangeAnansi BoysThe Once and Future KingThe Grapes of WrathThe Poisonwood Bible1984Angels & DemonsInfernoThe Satanic VersesSense and SensibilityThe Picture of Dorian GrayMansfield ParkOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestTo the Lighthouse*Tess of the D’UrbervillesOliver TwistGulliver’s TravelsLes MisérablesThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and ClayThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeDuneThe Prince*The Sound and the FuryAngela’s Ashes : a memoirThe God of Small ThingsA People’s History of the United States : 1492-presentCryptonomiconNeverwhereA Confederacy of DuncesA Short History of Nearly EverythingDubliners*The Unbearable Lightness of BeingBelovedSlaughterhouse-fiveThe Scarlet Letter*Eats, Shoots & LeavesThe Mists of AvalonOryx and CrakeCollapse : how societies choose to fail or succeedCloud AtlasThe ConfusionLolitaPersuasionNorthanger AbbeyThe Catcher in the RyeOn the RoadThe Hunchback of Notre DameFreakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everythingZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into valuesThe AeneidWatership DownGravity’s RainbowThe HobbitIn Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequencesWhite TeethTreasure IslandDavid Copperfield